The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-07
A STUDY IN HOUSEKEEPING.

A STUDY IN HOUSEKEEPING.
We give below the main portion Of
an article by that careful Investigator
and thinker, MI. Randolph Hunting
ton, of N. Y. The writer begins by
reference to the stallion Duke Alexis,
alleged to have been sired by Rysdyk's
! Bellfounder, and proceeds
We now look up Ryskyk's Bell
founder as recorded in Wallace, and
find he was by Rysdyk's Hambleton-
ian, out Of a mare by Friday "a thor
oughbred son Of imp. Trustee), and
the grand-dam was by imp. Bell
founder. Verify, blood and breeding
is a crucial test, which our time stand
ard registry can hardly face. Is justice
blindfolded i? Is reason dead, that the
American breeders say, "time stand
ard bred 2" AS the dam of Rysdyk's
Hambletonian was said to be by i'm
j ported Bellfounder, and the grand
dam of Rysdyk's Bellfounder was by
Z this same imp. Bellfounder, and as
neither Rysdyk's Hambletonian nor
his son, Rysdyk's Bellfounder, could
trot or get trotters eve from>a Clay
mare, pray tell me what virtue there
was in the blood of imp. Bellfounder,
except in the printers ink that records
the name to lead the imagination of
men? Again, if there vas any trot
in the blood of Old Abdallah, and
there was a little bit in Bellfounder,
why did not Rysdyk's Hambletonian
trot? It is a recorded fact, that
neither Old Abdallah nor his son Rys-
dyk's Hambletonian nor the grandson
Rysdyk's Bellfounder could not trot.
Besides my personal knowledge to
these facts, the Orange county stud
book, gotten up several years ago in
the interest of their Hambletonian
horses, records this fact. Again, the
dam of Rysdyk's Bellfounder was by
Friday, the thoroughbred o of imp.
Trustee. If the blood of imp. Trustee
made trot, why did it not make Rys-
dyk's Bellfounder trot :? I am in
favor of Cation (Trustee) blood in a
brood mare, because it is warm blood
from The Arabian; but the trotting
instinct is not in Trustee blood, hence
it did not help Abdallah and Bellfoun-
der in Rysdyk's Hambletonian or his
sol They were mongrels, of the
same value in breeding that pewter is
in metals; the value ceases in pewter.
Mongrels are fit only for work or the
shambles, except they can be recorded
as standard bred. I believe there is a
standard in metals for pewter, as in
mongrels in animal life, but the value
ceases in itself. Per contra, the impor.
ted Arabian blood of Grand Bashaw
was properly diluted in his son Young
Bashaw, with it's kindred blood through
Messenger. Young Bashaw couples
with the same Arabian blood through
Messenger, and the result, Andrew
Jackson, appears as a positive trotter.
A type created to trot, as positive as
was the thoroughbred horse to run or
beget run, this our forefathers did not
know, for they were not interested in
such study. The get of Andrew
Jackson trotted from any kind Of a
mare; but his sons, kept as sires, did
not possess uniformity, his transmit
ting power, as most of them had been
bred-indeed I may say all of them
had been photographers of future
blood influences.
In 1880 and 81 the two great race
horses, Eclipse and Sir Henry were in
the stud at Long Island. Mr.. Jacob
S, Platt owned three French mares,
called Kanucks. They were all ~troters,
and were known by name as Lady
Surry, Bet and Rose. Mr.. Platt bred
the first to. Sir Henry, but Rose he
put to Eclipse. Surry foaled a bay
FLY; Bet a sorrel horse colt, and Rose
a bay brown flly. These three foals.
were worked for trotting speed, but
there. was no trot in either of them,
although all the dams were trotters.
Mr.. PIatt sold the horse colt to Mr..
! jackson, who kept a hotel at Jamaica,
d.. T., and jackson sold him to parties
in New Jersey, near Philadelphia: He
was a sorrel stallion colt. and the rep
utation of Sir Henry made him at
tractive, so the New Jersey parties
stood him at Bordentown as May Day,
and this is the horse that has figured
SO mueh~as the cause for trot in some
of the Patchen family. You know it
has to be either May Day or Trustee
in Patchen; but l notice that neither
Nav Dav or Trustee blood trote ov.